Some Web searching led us to the Neshoba County Courthouse, where a clerk identified the judge who signed the order: Judge Marcus Gordon ... conviction in the "Mississippi Burning" murders.

Retired Circuit Judge Marcus D. Gordon, who oversaw the 2005 murder trial of Edgar Ray Killen in the FBI’s “Mississippi Burning ... He was county prosecutor for Newton County for four ...

Marcus Gordon, 84, the judge who presided over the belated trial of a hometown childhood acquaintance in the 1964 "Mississippi Burning ... the murders in Neshoba County of Michael Schwerner ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The state judge who presided over the “Mississippi Burning” trial in 2005 has died. Retired Mississippi Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon died Thursday at St. Dominic ...

(AP) - The state judge who presided over the “Mississippi Burning” trial in 2005 has died. Retired Mississippi Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon ... workers in Neshoba County. The revival of the ...